Christian Moral Development

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Across
  1. 7. it is helped by God’s inner call to love and to respond as a special
  2. 9. in the mission God has given us this the ability to train ourselves in moderation to seek and grow in humility.
  3. 11. The conscience must be
  4. 13. a person’s conscience develops as they
  5. 17. This truth is about relationships, God and God's relationship with us.
  6. 20. human fundamental sense of
  7. 21. We renounce evil and seek what is good. We repent of our sins and strive to do God’s will.
  8. 23. enables me to make and act from a moral stance which is “my own” and which expresses “me”
  9. 24. Much of the truth found in Scriptures is revealed through the use of symbols.
Down
  1. 1. Conscience is a
  2. 2. we are called to
  3. 3. has more to do with customs, habits and manners which shape human lives
  4. 4. is concerned with (objective good - good character; what is the good?: happiness and freedom)
  5. 5. This helps us to know God, ourselves and others as God knows.
  6. 6. conscience can be mal-formed through
  7. 8. This enables us to know God and esteem divine/eternal/everlasting things above temporal/worldly things.
  8. 10. when a person recognizes their faults they become more aware of their human
  9. 12. Conscience, as an ever-refining process, seeks to know the
  10. 14. A person’s conscience develops as they grow in the virtue of
  11. 15. We may, in most cases, call these positive characteristics
  12. 16. the Latin word for hinge, meaning “that on which other things depend.”
  13. 18. Human capacity to avoid
  14. 19. The human knows (and understands) how to perceive
  15. 22. this is the virtue of kindness to others